The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Should Prisoners Pay Medical Bills?

George Lavender

Dispatch

Apple Doesn’t Want You To Be Able To Fix Your iPhone—Here’s Why

The cure for planned Apple-escence

Kendra Pierre-Louis

Labor

Hundreds Take to the Streets Over Chicago Board of Education’s Decision to Further Slash CPS Funding

Crystal Stella Becerril

Viewpoint

The Media’s Portrayal of the Iran Deal Implies U.S. Imperialism Is a Good Thing

U.S. media commentary on the accord portrays U.S. global military supremacy as natural and desirable.

Gregory Shupak

Labor

For New York Times, U.S. Labor Abuses At Home and Abroad Are a Thing of Decades Past

Dean Baker

Labor

After Threatening To Strike, NYC Airport Workers Win Union Agreement, Say They’ll Push for $15

Michael Arria

Comics

The Truth About Mike Huckabee’s Iran/Israel “Oven” Statement

Matt Bors

Culture

Treacheries At Teatime

On postwar anti-communist surveillance in Britain

Jane Miller

Labor

Why My Fellow Adjuncts and I Decided To Form a Union at Our Community College

Luke Niebler

Labor

American Unionists Join Chinese Uniqlo Workers’ Campaign for End to Alleged Abuse

Michael Arria

Rural America

Vatican Country: American Farmers on the Agricultural Message of Pope Francis

Dayton Martindale

Labor

Donald Trump and the GOP Put Individual Wealth Over Strong Communities

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Labor

How Barbara Byrd-Bennett Worsened Racial Inequality and Hurt Public Education in Chicago

Alisa Robinson

Feature

An Open Letter To Naomi Wolf: Let Women Speak How They Please

Continually policing the ways women talk will further reduce them to silence.

Debbie Cameron

Feature

Ta-Nehisi Coates, James Baldwin and the “Brawl of Ancestors”

Critics who simply claim that "Coates is no Baldwin" are ignoring what can be a comparison that allows us to understand both writers more deeply.

Andy Seal

Labor

Univ. of California Academic Workers’ Union Calls on AFL-CIO To Terminate Police Union’s Membership

Mario Vasquez

Culture

In Flint, Michigan, the Wrecking Ball Has Not Meant Progress

Andrew Highsmith charts the rise and fall of Flint, a city deserted by industry and divided by segregation.

Daniel Hertz

Rural America

Factory Farm Runoff Is Polluting Lake Erie, But CAFO Sewers Are Not the Answer

Laura Orlando